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5 hackathons, 5 cities, choose yours and win up to €10,000!

You are full of amazing ideas and want to share them?

You are a designer and UX is your life?

You are a developer and want to build unique prototypes?

You have a special skill that will make the difference?

Be part of The Next Car Contest hosted by Volkswagen,

a unique competition in a European context!

PROFILES

DESIGNERS

IDEA GENERATORS

Idea generators are the brainstorm engines, they are the proposal forces.

Designers will turn ideas in shape. They love designing interfaces and they make projects appealing.

CODERS

SECRET WEAPON

A secret weapon has skills like: marketing, presenting, networking, creating business plans and uses them to carry the team to victory.

Coders are the builders. Based on ideas and designs, they will bring the project to life.

WHEN ?

JAN 5 TO FEB 5

1 IDEATION PLATFORM

FEB 5 TO 7

5 HACKATHONS

Saturday, February 6th

Sunday, February 7th

Friday, February 5th

7 pm: Opening

8 pm: Idea pitches and voting

9:30 pm: Team formation

10 pm: First lines of code

9 am: Technical support restarts

12 pm: First video checkpoint

8 pm: In-house demo rehearsal

9:30 pm: Code, code, code

9 am: Technical support restarts

4 pm: Second video checkpoint

6 pm: Demo and judging

8 pm: Winners announcement

WHERE ?

In 5 different cities

VOLKSWAGEN HQ

BERLINER RING 2, 38440,

WOLFSBURG, GERMANY

RAIN MAKING LOFT LONDON

INTERNATIONAL HOUSE,

1 ST KATHARINE'S WAY, LONDON E1W 1UN, UK

USINE IO

181 RUE DU CHEVALERET, PARIS XIII

B. AMSTERDAM

JOHAN HUIZINGALAAN 763A, 1066 VH AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS

SUP 46

REGERINGSGATAN 29,

STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN

IDEATION PLATFORM

LEARN AND DEFINE YOUR PROJECT SCOPE

Online conferences with experts

Participants, especially developers, will be able to learn about specific APIs/SDKs through webinars animated by quality IT partners.

1 to 1 video chat sessions with experts

Participants can book mentors for

20 minutes in order to refine their ideas and optimize the hackathon beginning.

A panel of technical experts answering within 30 minutes

The ideation platform will allow participants to ask questions, answered by experts who receive a notification when a question is submitted.

HACKATHON

DEVELOP THE FUTURE OF CAR MOBILITY

Participants arrive on Friday evening in each city venue, and set themselves in teams in a friendly environment. After that, teams start working on their projects. They have 48 hours to create a prototype.

Teams start working

During the entire event, several quality experts and mentors will be fully available on each site to help teams in need.

A panel of dedicated experts

On Sunday late evening, every team will present their prototypes at the same time in each city. Teams selected will finalize their prototypes during 4 weeks with the help of experts, and present their work at CeBIT 2016.

Final presentations and winner announcement

THE PANEL OF MENTORS

Mentor 2

Mentor 3

Mentor 1

Aliquam in sollicitudin

Aliquam in sollicitudin 2

Aliquam in sollicitudin 1

Mentor 5

Mentor 6

Mentor 4